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The idea that a Yoruba man is able to announce a manhunt of Igbo people inside Igboland is an insult.
quote:Police Commence Manhunt for MASSOB
From Charles Onyekamuo in Awka
The police in Anambra State have begun an intensive search for activists of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) saying their agitation for the rebirth of the defunct state of Biafra is treasonable.
The Anambra State Police Command Public Relation Officer, Mr. Kolapo Sofoluwe who spoke to newsmen in Awka yesterday said the police manhunt for Biafra agitators followed fresh moves by suspected members of MASSOB to sensitize the public on the Biafra agenda.
"Suspected members of the group in Awka and Onitsha had on certain occassions organized what they called, "Biafra sanitation exercise", he said,
The programme reportedly took place along ZIK Avenue in Awka, as well as Obodoukwu and upper Iweka roads in Onitsha penultimate week.
But Sofoluwe denied police knowledge of the sanitation exercise, adding that the police are at alert to curb any activity that will cause breach of public peace and create tension in the state.
He also said some people had been arrested in some local government areas of the state in connection with their MASSOB activities.
I thought such a manhunt was the type of thing that MASSOB's "non-violence" was supposed avoid.
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I hope umuIgbo are learning from the iraqis. They pretended to be american recruits, received training and weapons and then used it to defend their father land against the occupation forces. All the Biafrans currently serving in the BiafraNigerian Army and police must be ready do their duties when the time comes. Fat thugs and COWARDS like Balogun and co must be assisted to end violently.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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POLICE in Imo State have withdrawn their men after three days of fruitless search for members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), in Okwe, hometown of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the movement.
About 400 armed mobile policemen led by the State Police Commissioner, Mr Hezekiah Dimka had laid siege to the community since Thursday night for what the police command dubbed "a total war on MASSOB."
A total of 1,581 officers and men of the command were to be deployed to different parts of the state for the exercise, according to the security report signed by Nicholas Nkemdeme, the assistant commissioner of police (ACP), operations.
No gunshot was fired in Okwe in the three-day operation that saw policemen patrolling Okwe, Onuimo local government area of Imo State.
The police team reportedly left the community Saturday night after a fruitless search for the activists.
Villagers who fled in the wake of the police action were yet to return to their homes by Sunday morning while those who took courage to remain, locked up their doors and windows.
Absolute calm reigned in the community with only the barking of dogs heard in some compounds that looked deserted.
Answering questions from Daily Champion via telephone, Chief Uwazuruike declined comment on his whereabouts during the three-day operation in the area, but only stated that he cannot run away from his ancestral land on account of policemen who he said are not capable of arresting ordinary armed robbers.
"I will not run away from this land. This is my father’s house and the land belongs to my father. I cannot run away for Nigeria police who cannot arrest ordinary armed robbers," he said.
The MASSOB leader also declared that he was ready to die for his dream Republic of Biafra, stressing that his struggle is for life or death.
"The struggle is for life or death. I cannot be intimidated to abandon it. I am ready to die for Biafra," he vowed.
Chief Uwazuruike stated that MASSOB was able to intercept the police security report on the invasion because he had invested so much on his group’s intelligence arm.
Daily Champion recalls that the siege to Okwe was also designed to abort a prayer session tagged. "All Igbo Race Prayer Summit," which was slated to last three days from August 18.
The security report had alleged that MASSOB was hiding under a religious cloak to scuttle economic activities in Imo State, adding that the movement planned to divert the attention of security agents and embark on a process of sensitization of people in the churches, motor parks, market unions with a view to disrupting commercial activities in the South East geopolitical zone.
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